There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into... - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."